lukifer

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by lukifer 5d ago
For good and ill, the phenomenology of human experience is that we are religious animals. Naturalism / Materialism has still left us with two unsolved (perhaps insoluble) questions: the hard problem of consciousness, and why there is s
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by lukifer 8d ago
Stoller is an FDR-ish political progressive who focuses primarily on monopolies and antitrust enforcement. He's the author of "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy": https://www.goodreads.
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by lukifer 9d ago
There are various flavors of pan-psychism (and the "consciousness-first" idealists, who think that Mind is a substrate below Matter). There are some who claim that it goes all the way down, that even subatomic particles experience
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by lukifer 9d ago
Fair enough. But not everything has to be a breakthrough: sometimes you have to solve an immediate problem (like "how much can I trust this stranger I just met"). Whether to ascribe moral standing to a probability engine running o
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by lukifer 9d ago
Exactly.
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by lukifer 9d ago
If heuristics didn't pay off more often than not, we wouldn't have them. And I'd posit many scientific did in fact begin with chasing a hunch until it became a hypothesis (followed by years/decades of the real work). But
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by lukifer 10d ago
Chemical floating points are necessary but not sufficient. It’s clearly possible for those values to be intact, with no lights on (certain types of brain injury; those who were fully dead and then revived). There are also some cog-sci peopl
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by lukifer 10d ago
I don’t have a good answer beyond common-sense intuition. It’s precisely because I don’t have a good answer that I leave open the possibility. But to extrapolate a bit, theres a sense in which it cashes out to a difference between abstracte
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by lukifer 10d ago
Of course. It’s an allusion, a compression, an analogy, I wouldn’t overthink it. I don’t have to believe in the Bible to reference the prodigal son parable, etc.
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by lukifer 10d ago
To the extent that evolutionary pressures will be towards self-sovereign AIs (probably beginning as zero-employee corporations paying for their own hosting with crypto): more salient is that there is a very obvious political play to claim c
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by lukifer 11d ago
> investing creates things Predatory private equity. Unproductive rent-seeking. Anti-competitive "acquihires". > consumption destroys things Health care. Education. Selling/renting unoccupied housing.
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by lukifer 12d ago
Same. In addition to UX regression, we’re two major revs in, there’s nothing that’s a compelling enough value-add to be worth the trade-off, let alone the risk of unexpected side effects on any OS upgrade. On my Xcode dev machine, I’ll be b
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by lukifer 23d ago
Intelligence is a weapon? points gun from space Always has been.
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by lukifer 1mo ago
> Gruppo Di Nun's Revolutionary Demonology It's on my shelf! Haven't gotten to it yet, looking forward to it. Also interested to read Reza Negarestani's "Intelligence & Spirit"
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by lukifer 1mo ago
I personally think Land is worth reading (critically), but to say he cooked his brain with methamphetamines is a vast understatement. I agree that there's not much to learn from him on cybernetics specifically: he's sort of "
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by lukifer 2mo ago
The lossy compression of language is why we should find it unsurprising that LLMs tend to perform better at code, than at human language tasks or reasoning. While there can be subtle semantic differences in real codebases (using "null&
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by lukifer 4mo ago
"Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."
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by lukifer 4mo ago
NOSTR [0] is a store and forward relay service, ostensibly a distributed Twitter clone, but also highly extensible [1] to support other functionality. [0] Notes & Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays: https://nostr.com/ [1
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by lukifer 4mo ago
> does it simply skew deckbuilding into a new "broken" exactly, that's why it probably isn't feasible other than casual/social play: there's no change to the fundamental rules that doesn't end up warpin
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by lukifer 4mo ago
My thinking is that there's a tradeoff, that you slow your ramping in exchange for cycling ( replacing your land for turn). You trade your acceleration towards big spells for more consistency (or just fewer dead draws).
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by lukifer 4mo ago
It's alive and well, and the community is welcoming and happy to teach: https://nullsignal.games/players/around-the-world/ Cards release more slowly than the FFG era, but the current stewards (Null Signal) ha
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by lukifer 4mo ago
My biggest beef with Magic isn't the lands system, but that the game is fundamentally stingy with cards, leading to many non-games, and/or turns where you pray for the right top-deck and don't get it. (This is one major reaso
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by lukifer 6mo ago
> There's a reason why leftists support it I run in some far-left circles, and trust me, they don't :) Georgism is the neglected middle child of political economy: libertarians see it as an abrogation of sacred property rights,
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by lukifer 6mo ago
What article? This is an HN-only discussion post.
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Half-agree: zoning restrictions and non-essential building regulations are a de-facto government handout to existing property owners. At the same time, apologists for rentiers will do anything except taxing unimproved land value (which amon
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Cool! Disappointing there's so much focus on the non-sandboxing, I think it's a reasonable trade-off to release early, and follow up with signing later. - Website looks great overall, but the fixed and overlaid header title is awk
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Colorado has an alternative service which is entirely driver-owned: https://www.coloradodrivers.coop/
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Sufficiently advanced negligence is indistinguishable from malice. This is not to say that this administration is definitely not targeting civilians or infrastructure on purpose; just that the end result, and the moral culpability, are th
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by lukifer 7mo ago
I don't disagree. I trimmed "religious and mythological memeplexes" down to avoid repetition. (Also worth considering: de-facto religious behaviors need not be supernatural or "mythological"; you can substitute your
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by lukifer 7mo ago
The fascinating paradox: there are clearly "tells" (slop-smells, like code-smells?) of LLM-generated text. We're all developing heuristics rapidly, which probably pass a Pepsi challenge 95+% of the time. And yet: LLMs are wri

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